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Eodnhoj7
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Reducibility Paradox

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The atom is composed of itself as a particle is composed of particles. The atom as an irreducible entity however negates this. But a paradox occurs as the atom being reduced to a further atom necessitates no reduction happening at all given the atom is present across each reductive phase.
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Eodnhoj7 wrote: Thu Dec 16, 2021 9:42 pm The atom is composed of itself as a particle is composed of particles. The atom as an irreducible entity however negates this. But a paradox occurs as the atom being reduced to a further atom necessitates no reduction happening at all given the atom is present across each reductive phase.
Atoms are models. Chemistry and physics often demands that the irreducibility of atoms is breached.
It's all about context.
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nads, nads, monads...

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Sculptor wrote: Thu Dec 16, 2021 9:59 pm
Eodnhoj7 wrote: Thu Dec 16, 2021 9:42 pm The atom is composed of itself as a particle is composed of particles. The atom as an irreducible entity however negates this. But a paradox occurs as the atom being reduced to a further atom necessitates no reduction happening at all given the atom is present across each reductive phase.
Atoms are models. Chemistry and physics often demands that the irreducibility of atoms is breached.
It's all about context.
And one context reduced results in another context thus context is ever present and paradoxically irreducible even when it is reduced.
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